Sounds like it will not be hard for Arie Luyendyk Jr. to discover love on this season of The Bachelor!

As you understand, the “kissing bandit” will be back completely force on Monday, January 1– however in the meantime, host Chris Harrison is dishing up exactly what we can anticipate while viewing the previous race-car chauffeur’s mission.

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The long time TELEVISION character informed EW it didn’t take long at all for the females to ~ fall ~ for the leading male:

“I’m happy for the people who knew and loved Arie, but then there’s those that maybe they’re a little younger or they didn’t see the show and I’m actually more excited for them to get to know Arie. I’m excited for people to get to know Arie for the first time because he’s a great guy. He’s dynamic and yeah, he is a good kisser and he makes these women feel things very quickly. They fell for him very very quickly.”

As for the participants themselves, Chris could not have stated better things (as anticipated):

“It’s an incredible group of women — highly educated, very professional and fun. Arie connected with them incredibly well; I connected with this group really well. It was really a good, dynamic group and that’s not to say that we’re not going to have our moments, our drama and the competition and all that, but it really was a very good group. He was very blown away on night one after meeting everybody.”

And even though Bachelor Nation was at first quite hesitant about this choice for Bachelor (miss you, Peter!), Chris ensured fans this is not a season to miss out on:

“I know some people that were like, ” Why Arie?” Trust me. I’m fine starting slow and people saying, ” Oh I do not know,” and then word of mouth spreads and then people start talking and then the next [week], everybody’s like, ” You need to be viewing this.” I know that’s the way it will be with Arie.”

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